Thursday October 26th.
Up and out to the Kiso valley. The air is cool and sharp in the mountains, the light different. It's quiet and peaceful. We walk along an old post road, 8km from Magome to Tsumago. The old towns are quiet (apart from the swarms of high-school kids on outings - in fact, in the past week I've seen so many kids on school trips I wonder if there are any doing any work at all) and retain their old-town atmosphere. We eat lunch near a waterfall, take lots of pictures, and admire the variety of insects that leap out of the meadows to greet us. I've never held a stick-insect outside of Mr. Scott's primary 6 class. We pestered it for a bit (for that is the lot of stick-insects, to be pestered by teachers and kids), then put it back in the grass.
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